1 Table of Contents: “...The power of polio -- Iron Curtain, iron lungs -- Unlikely allies -- Local failure in a global...”

2 “.... by comparing him to a soldier in the trenches of World War I. In the trenches the soldier seldom forgets...”

3 “... decades afterwards, and therapeutic approaches did not evolve until after World War II when several groups...”

4 “... to bring together what was separated during the second world war and the postwar period in Europe...”